Tour Types
Cambodia 2008
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Small Group
- Price range:
- Deposit: £200, Balance: £1326, Fundraising Challenge; £350
- Day range:
- 15 days
- Flights:
- Arranged, depart from a London airport
- Country:
- Cambodia
- Location:
- Phnom Penh
- Tour type:
- Build a house shoulder-to-shoulder with a Cambodian family
- Group info:
- 10 – 12 people including a group leader
- Departures:
- 15 / 11 / 2008 – 29 / 11 / 2008
- Teachers discount:
- No
Highlights of this project.
On this 15 day challenge you will be working alongside a Cambodian family on a new house in which they will start new lives. Most families living in such conditions have little chance of improving their situations without assistance and life is a daily battle for most. Your hard work and enthusiasm will help the homepartner family achieve their dream of having a simple, decent place to live. A Habitat house in Cambodia is usually 32 sq metres in size. The walls are made from fired brick with a reinforced concrete post. The layout comprises a living room, bedroom and kitchen with a toilet. On your rest days, you will be able to spend time with the locals, learning about Cambodia's fascinating cultural diversity and history and exploring some of the local places of interest.
Example of the itinerary.
Saturday 15 November:
Depart UK for Phnom Penh, Cambodia.
Sunday 16 November:
Arrive Phnom Penh. Travel to local affiliate. Country specific orientation, including cultural information and an introduction to Cambodia.
Monday 17 - Friday 21 November:
Building days. During the week you will be interacting with the local community and have the chance to learn about local culture, customs and community development.
Saturday 22 - Sunday 23 November:
At leisure - rest and spend time with the local community and explore local places of interest.
Monday 24 - Wednesday 26 November:
Building days.
Thursday 27 - Friday 28 November:
At leisure - spend the day discovering the places, people and culture in and around the local area.
Depart Phnom Penh for UK.
Saturday 29 November:
Arrive in UK.
(Exact dates are subject to flight availability and itinerary subject to change.)
The benefits you bring in making this journey.
About 93 per cent of Cambodians live in the countryside, so poverty is primarily a rural phenomenon. But after the communist Khmer Rouge regime fell in 1979, an influx of migrants from the rural areas to the capital Phnom Penh resulted in the formation of urban poor communities. These sprawling poverty-stricken communities lack secure tenure or basic services. Families settle in every conceivable empty space, from courtyards and rooftops to the sides of railway tracks, riverbanks and swamps.
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